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From: MICHAEL O'CONNOR<michael.o' >
Subject: Re: Kearns
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 10:11:17 +0200 (GMT)

Barbara,
My maternal grandmother was Sarah KEARNS and Theodore OSTERLOH and she was
born in Kimberley. Have never really researched that side of my family but I
think that her (Sarah's) father was Brian KEARNS and and that she was born
in Cape Town. So there were KEARNS families in South Africa. I also seem to
remember that some O'CONNOR married a KEARNS somewhere in the eastern Cape.
Regards
Mike

>Edward Wolsely Fleming KEARNS, was born in Tinnevelly, India in 1856. His
>father was a missionary there, from Ireland. At age 15 the boy, "left
>school and went to sea" and that is the last I know of him, except that he
>must have still been around in 1894 when he was mentioned in his mother's will.
>
>My father always said that he thought some of our ancestors had gone to
>South Africa, but I have not yet found any who did.
>
>Does anyone know of any Kearns' out there?
>
>Regards,
>Barbara Kearns
>
>
Michael O'Connor
Orchid Grower and Genealogist
Researching the names O'Connor/Connor/Connors
Pietermaritzburg
South Africa

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